R-20 Syllabus for ECE - JNTUK w. e. f.
2020-21
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY KAKINADA
KAKINADA -— 533 003, Andhra Pradesh, India
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
IV Year — I Semester 3 T P C
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OPTICAL COMMUNICATION
(PE-3)
UNIT I
Overview of optical fiber communication - Historical development, The general
system,
advantages of optical fiber communications. Optical fiber wave guides-
Introduction, Ray
theory transmission, Total Internal Reflection, Acceptance angle, Numerical
Aperture, Skew
rays, Cylindrical fibers- Modes, V-number, Mode coupling, Step Index fibers, Graded
Index
fibers, Single mode fibers- Cut off wavelength, Mode Field Diameter, Effective
Refractive
Index, Related problems.
UNIT Il
Fiber materials:- Glass, Halide, Active glass, Chalgenide glass, Plastic optical
fibers. Signal
distortion in optical fibers-Attenuation, Absorption, Scattering and Bending
losses, Core and
Cladding losses, Information capacity determination, Group delay, Types of
Dispersion:-
Material dispersion, Wave-guide dispersion, Polarization-Mode dispersion,
Intermodal
dispersion, Pulse broadening in Graded index fiber, Related problems.
UNIT II
Optical fiber Connectors-Connector types, Single mode fiber connectors, Connector
return
loss, Fiber Splicing- Splicing techniques, Splicing single mode fibers, Fiber
alignment and
joint loss- Multimode fiber joints, single mode fiber joints.
UNIT IV
Optical sources- LEDs, Structures, Materials, Quantum efficiency, Power,
Modulation,
Power bandwidth product. Injection Laser Diodes- Modes, Threshold conditions,
External
quantum efficiency, Laser diode rate equations, Resonant frequencies, Reliability
of
LED&ILD, Optical detectors- Physical principles of PIN and APD, Detector response
time,
Temperature effect on Avalanche gain, Comparison of Photo detectors, Related
problems.
UNIT V
Source to fiber power launching - Output patterns, Power coupling, Power launching,
Equilibrium Numerical Aperture, Laser diode to fiber coupling, Optical receiver
operation-
Fundamental receiver operation, Digital signal transmission, error sources,
Receiver
configuration, Digital receiver performance, Probability of Error, Quantum limit,
Analog
receivers.
Optical system design - Point-to- point links- Component choice and considerations,
Link
power budget, Rise time budget with examples, Line coding in Optical links, WDM,
Necessity, Principles, Measurement of Attenuation and Dispersion, Eye pattern.
TEXT BOOKS :
1. Optical Fiber Communications — Gerd Keiser, Mc Graw-Hill International edition,
3" Edition, 2000.
2. Optical Fiber Communications — John M. Senior, PHI, 2nd Edition, 2002.